You saw it on last night's show, now read Captain Slow and Paul Horrell compare it to the Fiat Panda

The gist of it is this: I like the new Fiat Panda; Paul Horrell prefers the Volkswagen Up. Now, I've known Horrell for some 20 years, and he's an intelligent bloke, so this ought to make for a dazzling and rapier-like exchange of wit and cheap put-downs.

Trouble is, it took place in a fetid, small conference room next to the Top Gear magazine office, and not in a pub, where beer charges the barrels of opinion's artillery just as effectively as it demolishes logic. What follows is actually very balanced and reasonable.

He's still wrong, though.

Words: James May and Paul HorrellPhotos: Rowan Horncastle

This article was first published in the April 2012 issue of Top Gear magazine